The Executive Commission of the St. Petersburg Committee of the RSDLP, in view of urgent communications received from the city of Sveaborg{125} concerning the acute aggravation of the situation in that city and the possibility of immediate uprising, resolves:

1) to dispatch immediately to Sveaborg a delegation of comrades NNNN;

2) to entrust this delegation with taking all measures to thoroughly ascertain the actual situation on the ground;

3) to entrust it with influencing local party members, revolutionaries, and the population to the effect of securing a postponement of the uprising, if this is at all possible without extreme sacrifices on the part of the population in the sense of arrests by the government of persons already marked out;

4) to entrust the same delegation, in the event of complete impossibility of preventing the uprising, with taking the most active part in directing the movement, i.e., to help the masses who have come out to struggle organize themselves independently, disarm and destroy the reaction, undertake decisive offensive actions in accordance with proper preparation, and come forward with correct and genuinely revolutionary slogans capable of exciting the entire people.

Written 16 (29) July 1906.

First published in 1930 in the "Report to the Sixteenth Party Congress" of the Lenin Institute at the CC of the VKP(b). Moscow

Printed from the manuscript

First page of V. I. Lenin's manuscript "On the Dispatch of a Delegation to Sveaborg. Resolution of the Executive Commission of the St. Petersburg Committee of the RSDLP." – 1906. (Reduced)